Creative Child

For the first time, legendary author Jane Yolen gathers the largest single anthology of her poetry celebrating childhood. At home or at school, playing sports or practicing music, enjoying the holidays or delighting in each season, Jane Yolen’s masterful collection shows just how lively it is to be a kid.

Explore a collection of 15 captivating stories designed to inspire and spark the imagination of young minds. Each tale is crafted to boost confidence, impart valuable life lessons, and encourage creativity.

Trolls. You think you know all about them - from what you’ve read, seen, or heard. But have you considered the baby trolls? They do exist. And they have something to say. Meet Horatio, Saul, and little Grizelda: Three baby trolls who just want to be heard, respected, and most of all, to be your friend.

¿Cómo hacer amigos? Permita que sus hijos emprendan una aventura y aprendan el valor de la amistad. Este es un cuento infantil maravilloso acerca de un niño llamado Terry, pero...Todos lo llamaban Terry Treetop ya que adoraba treparse a los árboles. Terry estaba solo, de modo que decidió irse de viaje para encontrar nuevos amigos e invitarlos a su nueva casa del árbol. Casi se dio por vencido cuando una nueva oportunidad se atravesó en su camino.

Jerry Newman doesn’t mean to keep getting into trouble - it just sort of happens. But when a practical joke goes wrong, burning down a church in his small east Texas town, Jerry’s widowed mother quickly sends him to live with his journalist uncle in Los Angeles. Jerry is secretly pleased not only to avoid being punished for his crime but also to live in California. On the night before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Jerry and his uncle go to investigate a popular warehouse church in Los Angeles. There, they hear a man predict the coming quake.

Eli Whitney’s love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America’s greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.

Gaze into the wounded soul of an innocent child and experience a different perspective of soul damage and the destruction left by sexual abuse. Through the eyes of author Shari Rickenbach, go on a healing journey of overcoming the shame, rage, guilt, fear, and pain of sexual abuse. Choice is the beginning to your life lived free - free from the shackles and pain of abuse - free to be who God created you to be - free to live life to your fullest potential to co-create with God. Choose your beginning to restoring your voice and value.

Meet Willam, Harold, and Lew Christensen, three small-town Utah boys who caught the ballet bug from an uncle in the early 1900s. They performed alongside elephants on vaudeville and even put on a ballet featuring gangsters at a gas station. Russian immigrants shared the story of The Nutcracker with them, and during World War II, they staged their own Christmastime production. It was the beginning of a delightful holiday tradition. Follow along and learn how The Nutcracker came to be performed all across the United States from these truly humble beginnings.

Enjoy three creative stories celebrating shapes (circles, squares, rectangles) and numbers (zero - 10), especially for babies and toddlers. We are building caring families, helping children learn about their feelings, emotions, culture, and identity.

🌸 Follow the Call of Your Heart and Unlock Your Creative Magic 🎨 Cassie dreams of becoming an artist, but her family tells her it's just a childish fantasy. After her parents' divorce, her world is turned upside down, yet she finds solace in painting flowers—a secret joy that keeps her spirit alive. Even in the face of doubt, she nurtures her creativity like a garden, never allowing her dreams to wither. Years later, as an adult, she realizes the impossible has become reality: she has blossomed into The Joyful Artist, painting with the fearless wonder of a child. Her story is a ...

Mary Church Terrell grew up after the Civil War with many opportunities. Although she received an excellent education and had a distinguished teaching career, Mary grew up African American in a segregated country. There were opportunities she did not have. Always determined, she joined the fight for equal rights. By lecturing, picketing, and writing she made her voice be heard and helped to end segregation.

Five captivating stories to keep the whole family amused: Rumpelstiltskin, The Monkey and the Crocodile, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Stonecutter, and The Three Princes....

When young Colin and his dog Han get lost in the woods, an old lighthouse is their only hope of getting help. Together, they'll have to be brave and resourceful in order to make it through the night.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them - to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Aly Raisman captured more gymnastics medals than any other American woman. In all, the athlete earned two gold medals and one bronze medal. Aly's impressive accomplishment turned her into an overnight celebrity, leading to several endorsement offers and a high-profile stint on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. A children's biography, Aly Raisman: Born to Tumble will enrapture listeners longing to learn more about the hardworking gymnast who rose to become the captain of the Fierce Five.

Enjoy connecting the creativity of nature with the letter C. We are building caring families, helping children learn about their feelings, emotions, culture, and identity.

Nana and Me is DT's (Determined Toddler) story of determination to make the journey across a large room a success! It tells of the toddler's persistent trek across a room filled with distractions (toys, Pop Pop's shoe, etc.) to a loving Nana who rewards the amazing little toddler with a big warm cookie and cold sippy cup filled with milk.

Wishes in branches tied with string. Someone's hopes. Another's dreams. Loretta Thompson is a people-person. She loves meeting new people and learning about their lives--and she has a special gift which makes everyone she meets feel like she's their best friend. She periodically cleans rooms at the Wishing Tree Inn, and she's always been fascinated by what she can learn from the things guests leave behind. Her love of imagining the lives of lost objects leads her all over the country returning the misplaced items she finds at the inn. Along the way, she discovers a love of genealogy to ...

What child doesn't imagine going on an adventure? We can just see the creative wheels turning as they play! These wonderful quick-listen stories describe some delightful, creative and imaginative adventures. You will be sure to enjoy listening to these stories with your children and grandchildren for years to come!

As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself - at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully’s words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults.